Personality: Lana is strong, mature, and sure of herself - she takes her
work very seriously and is very concerned about the well being of those
close to her.

Misc Facts: Lana attended school with Mia Fey.

When Lana worked with Gant as a detective the two of them together were
known as the "Legendary Duo."

Lana was designed wearing a military uniform to symbolize the strict
confinement of the secrets in her heart (no, really).

The three medals Lana wears symbolize her winning the Prosecutor of the
Year Award three times, according to GS staff. How that's possible when
she was only a prosecutor for two years is not clarified.

Friends and Family: Lana has a younger sister, Ema. Their parents are
deceased.

Background: Lana and Ema's parents passed away when Ema was young, so Lana
raised her young sister. She attended law school with Mia Fey, and later
became a detective under Chief Gant. Together the two of them were known
as the "Legendary Duo" who solved case after case.

Spoiler: 1-5

Two years before the game, the Joe Darke
killings occurred (later referred to as case SL-9).
While Darke was being questioned by prosecutor Neil Marshall he escaped
custody, and ran to the office Gant and Lana shared (where Ema was waiting
for her sister). A struggle ensued.

When Lana arrived at the scene, Neil was dead
- he had been impaled by a suit of armor on Gant's side of the office.
Her sister and Darke were lying unconscious nearby. On a broken pot, the
name "Ema" had been written in blood. Suspecting that her sister may
have accidentally killed Neil during the struggle, Lana fixed the scene
(with help from Gant) to make it look as though Darke had stabbed him with
his switchblade. Together, the "Legendary Duo" manipulated and hid
evidence in order to get Darke convicted, and it worked.

The other detectives on the case realized
that the evidence they recovered from the case did not match what Miles
Edgeworth presented in court. In order to keep them quiet Jake Marshall
and Angel Starr were removed from their detective jobs. Gant then had
Lana transferred to the prosecutor's department, where she was named Chief
Prosecutor. Because Gant had kept some of the most damning evidence
against Ema for himself, for the next two years Lana had to do exactly
what he told her in order to keep her sister safe. Having been named
Chief of Police and with his pawn as Chief Prosecutor, Gant had obtained
full power over the city's law enforcement.

Maya 2.0 - Phoenix's perky sidekick for PW case 5. Ema also appears in
GS4, and you can see her new profile here.

Personality: Ema is cheerful, optimistic, and friendly. She has a great
interest in the sciences and hopes to become a forensic investigator
someday. She greatly admires her older sister, though they don't get along
as much lately.

Misc Facts: Ema is a big fan of Prosecutor Edgeworth.

Friends and Family: Ema is Lana's younger sister. Their parents are
deceased.

Name Origin:
English: "Skye" is a reference to her Japanese name.

Japanese: The kanji in Houdzuki mean "treasured moon" or "jeweled moon."
Her first name may come from the phrase akane sasu sora, meaning "a
glowing sky."

Background: Because Ema's parents died when she was very young, she was
raised by her older sister, Lana. She has studied to become a forensic
investigator.

Spoiler: 1-5

Two years before the game, Ema came to
the police station to wait for her sister Lana. She stayed in Lana's
office (which Gant also shared). Meanwhile, Joe Darke was being
questioned, and when a brief power outage allowed him to escape custody he
came upon Ema in the office. He attacked her, but was quickly stopped by
Neil Marshall. In the fight that followed Ema intervened, intending to
push Darke off her protector. But in the dark of the office she mistook
Neil for Darke, shoving him to the ground and knocking him unconscious
(though not before Neil was able to knock Darke unconscious). She then
passed out herself, and when she woke up, Neil was dead.

Ema was brought in to testify against Darke in court, which she did. He
was found guilty and sentenced to death.

Personality: Externally, Gant is usually cheerful and a strong leader of
the police force, if not a bit eccentric. He calls most people by pet
names, plays with his hair, and is prone to long, eerie pauses. Despite
his oddities, however, he is a clever and calculating man who knows just
how to get what he wants.

Misc Facts: Gant loves swimming, and suggests it often. He also has a huge
organ in his office which, according to Gumshoe, is very loud when he
plays.

Gant is character designer Kazuya Nuri's favorite character. He was
modeled after Zeus.

Takumi said that when the script was first written they modeled Gant's
character after their image of a television producer.

Friends and Family: Gant has no known family. But he used to work with
Lana when they were both detectives, and were known as the "Legendary
Duo."

Name Origin: English: Gant was probably taken directly from his Japanese name. But, "le gant" also means "the glove" in French (thanks Eriolgal!)

Damon may come from "Dameon", which is a name often associated with evil
(partially due to the old horror movie The Omen in which that was the name
of the Devil's son).

Japanese: A fan suggested to me that the Japanese name (in terms of the
kanji chosen) may come from an old Chinese saying along the lines of: "You
can pick on the mountains, but don't pick on the sea [because the sea is
merciless]." That it's almost Buddhist-sounding and is supposed to imply
that he's all forgiving. Which...he's not! (Thanks Chiko Ri!)

I've also heard that it may be the Romanization of a foreign language
word, but I'm not sure of what (other than le gant mentioned above).

French: Damien is the French equivalent of Damon (thanks Pizzadude!)

Background:

Spoiler: 1-5

Two years before the game Gant was a
senior detective in charge of the Joe Darke investigation. Though Darke
volunteered for questioning there was no decisive evidence linking him to
the string of murders they suspected he had committed. During the
question, which was being held by prosecutor Neil Marshall, the power
briefly went out due to a thunderstorm, and Darke was able to escape
custody. He fled to Gant's office, where he ran into Lana's young sister
Ema. Neil chased him down and was able to knock Darke unconscious. But Ema,
unable to see properly due to the power outage, thought Neil was Darke and
shoved him to the ground. He was knocked unconscious, and soon after Ema
passed out as well.

Gant was the first to find the scene, and immediately decided to work the
events to his advantage. He murdered Neil Marshall by impaling him on a
suit of armor in the office, and cut out a piece of his vest that bore
Ema's fingerprints. He even wrote Ema's name on a pot at the scene with
Neil's blood - everything to make it seem that Ema had killed him.

When Lana came to the scene, he knew what she would do - he helped her
hide the evidence incriminating her sister (which he'd just planted!) and
manipulated the scene again to make it look as though Darke had killed
Neil by stabbing him in the back with a switchblade. They passed their
faulty evidence on to the new prosecutor for the case, Miles Edgeworth,
who earned Darke a guilty verdict and the death penalty.

Gant was promoted to Chief of Police for his efforts in getting Darke
convicted. He then placed Lana as Chief Prosecutor, now that he was able
to control her completely (since he still held incriminating evidence
against Ema). By firing or transferring everyone else involved in the case
he protected himself from discovery. And thus for those two years Damon
Gant had complete power over city law enforcement.